WHO'S WHO: Georgi Iliev

Views on BG | August 26, 2005, Friday // 00:00
WHO'S WHO: Georgi Iliev Georgi Iliev. Photo by www.lpfc.net

Georgi Iliev was born on July 22, 1966 in the city of Kyustendil, to the west of Bulgaria.

Iliev studied at his hometown Wrestling School "Olympic Hopes". He is Republican and Balkan Champion of Wrestling.

Iliev has his first police record in 1983 for theft. Three years later he was sentenced to eleven years in jail for group raping. He served his sentence in the Bobovdol prison.

Georgi Iliev was released from jail in 1991 but arrested again in 1992 over charges of stealing a car and false identity papers.

His brother Vassil Iliev was killed on April 25, 1995. Then Georgi Iliev was appointed for president of the VIS-2 insurance company, but officially he refused to take over the business.

The name of Georgi Iliev was involved with the murder of Valerii Silarubov in Zlatna Iabalka disco club in Sunny Beach.

In 2000 Georgi Iliev and a group of his bodyguards rushed into a Sofia night bar and severely beat its boss. He was sued for hooliganism but was acquitted in 2003.

Georgi Iliev is president of VAI Invest Holding and owns many hotels on the Black Sea coast, including some of largest ones in Sunny Beach.

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